ISS Fan Club

Aside from the obvious financial limitations which restrict space tourism to the rich and the ridiculously rich, there are also significant training programs and testing to be completed before proceeding to lift-off.

To gain a better insight into this training, well-known video game programmer and designer Richard Garriott, who is preparing for his own space adventure in October, is detailing in a blog what he and others have to go through in order to make it into orbit as a space traveler.

Garriott has been in training since the beginning of the year and told CNN the first major thing to surprise him was the intensity of preparations.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/19/space.training/index.html